Kymothoe

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Kymothoe (right) says goodbye to Achilles . Attic Kantharos , 450-400 BC Chr.

Kymothoe ( Greek Κυμοθόη; to German "rushing wave") is the name of a nereid (sea nymph) in Greek mythology . She is one of fifty (according to other versions a hundred) Nereids and, according to tradition, the companion and comforter of the goddess Tethys when she mourned her deceased son Achilles . She is also said to have helped the sea god Triton to flush the boat of the hero Aeneas free when it got stuck between dangerous reef rocks. From Kameiros comes a sumptuous bowl on which Kymothoe is depicted together with Peleus and Tethys. A drinking vessel from Vulci shows her saying goodbye to her nephew Achilles in the Trojan War .

literature

  • Theresa Bane: Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Jefferson (North Carolina) / London 2013, ISBN 0-7864-7111-5 , p. 208.
  • Michael Paschalis: Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-814688-4 , p. 39 f.